For the first time in six months, local astronaut Reid Wiseman is back on planet Earth.

Wiseman and two other astronauts successfully landed in Kazakhstan at 10:58 p.m. Sunday Eastern Standard Time. The crew went through a medical check, made satellite phone calls to friends and family and then were welcomed home in a traditional ceremony.

The crew of Expedition 41 said their final goodbyes to space and successfully undocked from the International Space Station around 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

A photo popped up on Twitter around 5 p.m. Sunday showing Wiseman and his crew preparing for their final ride. Wiseman wrote in the tweet, "What a ride it has been."

Wiseman, of Cockeysville, has been very vocal on Twitter about his time in space, sharing that he's been consumed with "one last look" moments. He captured an outer space sunset in a timelapse Vine video, as well as a cramped video tour of the living quarters inside the ISS.

Wiseman's work and scientific research is impressive, but his tweets are what earned him nearly 365,000 Twitter followers. He was one of six people living off the planet who took Earthlings all along for the ride.

During his six months in space, Wiseman captured breathtaking photos from his vantage point, including flying through an aurora, capturing a typhoon from above and showing a monster sandstorm across Africa. He even gave the occasional shout-out to Baltimore from 1 million feet above.

Wiseman also shared science experiments in space with water, showing the world what could be done in space.

As Wiseman returns to Earth, another Marylander is on his way to the International Space Station. Columbia native Terry Virts will arrive there later this month for a six-month tour of his own.